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the ucsc review
October/November 1979
IN THIS ISSUE:
Special visitor from Tibet
Study of 'prosocial' children
Alumni news & notes
---
Saving the great 'blue'
The gods are pleased with us.
Poseidon has made a generous
donation to the UCSC Center
for Coastal Marine Studies in the
form of an 85-foot, 50-year-old dead
female blue whale which washed up
on Pescadero Beach in mid-
September.
It was an awesome sight: The
huge hunk of flesh, untouched except
a few shark bites, gently rolling
back and forth under the pounding
of the surf. It dwarfed-the thousands
of visitors who came to look at an
animal they would probably see once
in a lifetime.
The beaching of a blue whale is
a rare incident indeed. The last "blue"
was found around Crescent City in
the late 1920s. They are deepwater
animals and usually sink after they
die; this whale, however, had died
close enough to shore to be picked
up by local currents and swept onto
the beach.
CCMS marine biologists immediately realized their chance to
preserve and reconstruct a complete
blue whale skeleton. The project
is a large-scale one that required
funding, permits, labor and dedication; nevertheless, it has begun
without delay.
The first step was to clear
formalities and there are many. The
blue whale, with an estimated North
Pacific stock of 1,500 to 1,700 animals
(International Whaling Commission
estimate), is an endangered species.
As such, it is protected by both the
Marine Mammal Protection Act and
the Endangered Species Act. Anybody who wants to work on an
endangered marine mammal, dead or
alive, must have a permit from the
National Marine Fisheries Service.
Furthermore, any dead marine
mammal that washes up on a U.S.
beach is automatically the property
of the Smithsonian Institution, the
national museum in Washington, D.C.
Collection and subsequent exhibition
of such a specimen are possible only
on a permanent-loan basis from the
Smithsonian."
With the time-consuming paperwork out of the way, work on the
whale could begin. By then time
was running out. The surf had thrown
the whale against a cliff where it
was rapidly disintegrating. Some
bones were crushed by the waves,
others stolen by tourists.
please see page five
---
A first time celebration of animals
The first event of its kind,
"A Celebration of Animals,"
will be held at UCSC November
3, billed as "a celebration of the beauty,
dignity and mystery of animals," as
well as a realistic look at their predicament in a human-ruled world.
The celebration will bring together
a number of authors and philosophers
with a special interest in animals,
including Barry Lopez who wrote
Of Wolves and Men and Desert
Notes, among other works, and
Paul Shepard, author of Thinking
Animals and a professor of human
ecology and natural philosophy at
Pitzer College.
They will be joined by Tom Regan,
author of Animal Rights & Human
Obligations, from North Carolina
State, Wymberley Coerr of Defenders
of Wildlife, Richard Spotts, an
attorney from the Animal Protection
Institute of America, and others.
A prime mover of the celebration
is College Eight student Lori Robinson
who presents a rationale for the day:
"As children we encounter wild
animals in storybooks that distort
their true qualities, or we see them
in cages where their characteristic
behavior is not visible. We are taught
that animals are not as intelligent
and therefore lesser than we. The
relatively few people who have ever
witnessed a red-tailed hawk soaring
in the air thermals, whales breaching
in Arctic waters, or elephants, lions,
and zebra roaming the African
savannahs, are usually awestruck by
these experiences.
"Books written by many of these
people demonstrate a belief that
animals are not lesser than humans,
only different. 'A Celebration of
Animals' will show more people that
animals have inherent beauty and
dignity and that they are worthy of our
respect and admiration.
"Our lack of contact with animals
in the wild breeds an insensitivity
that has resulted in our wanton use of
animals for our own advantage and an
inability to consider them as beings
in their own right. This symposium
has been largely inspired by the
appalling facts of present-day
treatment of nonhuman animals."
"The cumulative effect of the
many cases of direct and deliberate
maltreatment of animals is the
decimation of whole species of
animal life," says the student group
sponsoring the symposium with the
UCSC Environmental Studies Board.
"What is termed wildlife management
has been little more than a way of
making the decimation of wild species
and their habitat more organized,
efficient, and legitimate. We are
quickly squeezing out the last
remaining populations of wolves,
grizzly bears, whales, elephants,
bobcats, bald eagles, whooping
cranes—the list is very long.
"The symposium at UCSC is
intended to further educate the
public about human abuse of other
animals and the need for animal rights.
Factual descriptions of the issues are
not intended to make one feel guilty,
but rather to encourage examination
of personal ethics. The celebration
will serve to enunciate such an ethic
in relation to the creatures with
whom we share this small planet.
And these new attitudes will provide
a foundation for the active employment of alternatives to methods
presently in use."
The celebration will be held in
the Thimann Lecture Hall from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $3. For
more information, call (408) 423-0124.

the ucsc review
October/November 1979
IN THIS ISSUE:
Special visitor from Tibet
Study of 'prosocial' children
Alumni news & notes
---
Saving the great 'blue'
The gods are pleased with us.
Poseidon has made a generous
donation to the UCSC Center
for Coastal Marine Studies in the
form of an 85-foot, 50-year-old dead
female blue whale which washed up
on Pescadero Beach in mid-
September.
It was an awesome sight: The
huge hunk of flesh, untouched except
a few shark bites, gently rolling
back and forth under the pounding
of the surf. It dwarfed-the thousands
of visitors who came to look at an
animal they would probably see once
in a lifetime.
The beaching of a blue whale is
a rare incident indeed. The last "blue"
was found around Crescent City in
the late 1920s. They are deepwater
animals and usually sink after they
die; this whale, however, had died
close enough to shore to be picked
up by local currents and swept onto
the beach.
CCMS marine biologists immediately realized their chance to
preserve and reconstruct a complete
blue whale skeleton. The project
is a large-scale one that required
funding, permits, labor and dedication; nevertheless, it has begun
without delay.
The first step was to clear
formalities and there are many. The
blue whale, with an estimated North
Pacific stock of 1,500 to 1,700 animals
(International Whaling Commission
estimate), is an endangered species.
As such, it is protected by both the
Marine Mammal Protection Act and
the Endangered Species Act. Anybody who wants to work on an
endangered marine mammal, dead or
alive, must have a permit from the
National Marine Fisheries Service.
Furthermore, any dead marine
mammal that washes up on a U.S.
beach is automatically the property
of the Smithsonian Institution, the
national museum in Washington, D.C.
Collection and subsequent exhibition
of such a specimen are possible only
on a permanent-loan basis from the
Smithsonian."
With the time-consuming paperwork out of the way, work on the
whale could begin. By then time
was running out. The surf had thrown
the whale against a cliff where it
was rapidly disintegrating. Some
bones were crushed by the waves,
others stolen by tourists.
please see page five
---
A first time celebration of animals
The first event of its kind,
"A Celebration of Animals,"
will be held at UCSC November
3, billed as "a celebration of the beauty,
dignity and mystery of animals," as
well as a realistic look at their predicament in a human-ruled world.
The celebration will bring together
a number of authors and philosophers
with a special interest in animals,
including Barry Lopez who wrote
Of Wolves and Men and Desert
Notes, among other works, and
Paul Shepard, author of Thinking
Animals and a professor of human
ecology and natural philosophy at
Pitzer College.
They will be joined by Tom Regan,
author of Animal Rights & Human
Obligations, from North Carolina
State, Wymberley Coerr of Defenders
of Wildlife, Richard Spotts, an
attorney from the Animal Protection
Institute of America, and others.
A prime mover of the celebration
is College Eight student Lori Robinson
who presents a rationale for the day:
"As children we encounter wild
animals in storybooks that distort
their true qualities, or we see them
in cages where their characteristic
behavior is not visible. We are taught
that animals are not as intelligent
and therefore lesser than we. The
relatively few people who have ever
witnessed a red-tailed hawk soaring
in the air thermals, whales breaching
in Arctic waters, or elephants, lions,
and zebra roaming the African
savannahs, are usually awestruck by
these experiences.
"Books written by many of these
people demonstrate a belief that
animals are not lesser than humans,
only different. 'A Celebration of
Animals' will show more people that
animals have inherent beauty and
dignity and that they are worthy of our
respect and admiration.
"Our lack of contact with animals
in the wild breeds an insensitivity
that has resulted in our wanton use of
animals for our own advantage and an
inability to consider them as beings
in their own right. This symposium
has been largely inspired by the
appalling facts of present-day
treatment of nonhuman animals."
"The cumulative effect of the
many cases of direct and deliberate
maltreatment of animals is the
decimation of whole species of
animal life," says the student group
sponsoring the symposium with the
UCSC Environmental Studies Board.
"What is termed wildlife management
has been little more than a way of
making the decimation of wild species
and their habitat more organized,
efficient, and legitimate. We are
quickly squeezing out the last
remaining populations of wolves,
grizzly bears, whales, elephants,
bobcats, bald eagles, whooping
cranes—the list is very long.
"The symposium at UCSC is
intended to further educate the
public about human abuse of other
animals and the need for animal rights.
Factual descriptions of the issues are
not intended to make one feel guilty,
but rather to encourage examination
of personal ethics. The celebration
will serve to enunciate such an ethic
in relation to the creatures with
whom we share this small planet.
And these new attitudes will provide
a foundation for the active employment of alternatives to methods
presently in use."
The celebration will be held in
the Thimann Lecture Hall from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets are $3. For
more information, call (408) 423-0124.